I volunteered to help set up a bake sale today at the Corcoran High School polling place. I got there at 5:45 a.m., and the line of people waiting for the polls to open up already stretched from the sign-in tables to the door. There was a kind of electricity I don't remember feeling before; one couple stopped at the door with their son to take a photo, because they said they wanted to remember this day.

Whatever happens tonight, there is already a level of emotion that seems to be building by the hour.